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Allan Sekula
Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002–2003

Disposal pit (Lendo, 12-23-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Dripping black trapezoid (Lendo, 12-22-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Exhausted volunteers (en route from Isla de Ons, 12-19-02),from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Fishing for fuel, surveying the damage (Ria de Pontevedra, 12-19-02; Museo do Alemán, Camelle, 12-22-02),from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Large and small disasters (Islas Cíes and Bueu, 12-20-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Percebeiros (Shellfishers) working, army preparing (Tourinan, 12-24-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Self-portrait (Lendo, 12-22-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Volunteer on the edge (Islas Cíes, 12-20-02), from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Volunteer watching, volunteer smiling (Isla de Ons, 12-19-02),, from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Volunteer's soup (Isla de Ons, 12/19/02),from the series Black Tide/Marea Negra, 2002-2003.
Photo: Courtesy Allan Sekula Studio

Collection

Allan Sekula

20 cibachrome prints, libretto (“Marea negra: fragmentos para una ópera”, Culturas, no. 34, weekly magazine supplement to La Vanguardia (Barcelona), February 12, 2003)
Overall dimensions variable

In December 2002, at the invitation of the Barcelona newspaper, La Vanguardia, Sekula traveled to Galicia in northwest Spain where, in November, a crippled tanker carrying more than 20 million gallons of oil had split in half, creating one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Sekula produced a sequence of documentary photographs, which are less conventionally dramatic and more meditative than typical photojournalism. His pictures focus on the beleaguered coastal topography, the physical properties of the invading oil, and the Sisyphean labors of the volunteers who battle the black tide.

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Group exhibition: The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines
Venue: Painting Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Curator: Sabine Folie
April 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023

Exhibition: La Bienal Internacional de Fotografía FOTONOVIEMBRE 2021
Venue: TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Curator: Tereza Arozena
October 22, 2021 - January 9, 2022

Allan Sekula (January 15, 1951 – August 10, 2013) was an American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic. From 1985 until his death in 2013, he taught at California Institute of the Arts.^[1] His work frequently focused on large economic systems, or "the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world."^[2]
He received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Getty Research Institute, Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Atelier Calder^[3] and was named a 2007 USA Broad Fellow.

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Download: Gabriele Mackert "Sisyphus's Prestige"

Los últimos días de diciembre con Allan Sekulla

En Los últimos días de diciembre con Allan Sekula Carles Guerra entrevista a Allan Sekula con motivo de la exposición de sus piezas sobre la catástrofe del Prestige en las costas Gallegas.

Allan Sekula en Galicia

«Allan Sekula en Galicia: dos series fotográficas sobre trabajo, capitalismo y crisis» en Anuario, Dpto, Historia y Teoría del Arte, UAM, Madrid, 2020, pp. 137-159.

Ben Lerner on Allan Sekula’s ‘Fish Story’

Ben Lerner on Allan Sekula’s ‘Fish Story’”, Frieze, 8 January 2019,

Allan Sekula Studio

https://www.allansekulastudio.org

Author bibliography:

“Between the Net and the Deep Blue Sea,” October, 102 (2002), 3-34.

Allan Sekula: Fish Story, Rotterdam, Düsseldorf, Witte de With & Richter Verlag, 2002. Edited with Catherine Lorenz.

Photography against the Grain. Essays and Photo Works. 1973-1983, Mack, 2016

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